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• MS-DEFCON 4: Mixed bag for March

  Posted on March 25, 2025 at 02:45 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 22.12.1 • 2025-03-25

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Although CISA has given businesses who follow its guidance until early April to install updates released in March, I’m urging you to do so now.

  Accordingly, I’m lowering the MS-DEFCON level to 4. You can find CISA’s deadlines in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

  Note that my recommendations for businesses include some possible exceptions.

  Anyone can read the full MS-DEFCON Alert (22.12.1, 2025-03-25).

  AskWoody Plus Alert, MS-DEFCON Alerts, Chrome, Edge, Microsoft marketing, MS-DEFCON, MS-DEFCON 4, NVIDIA, OneDrive, Patch Lady Posts, RDP, Remote Desktop Connection, Windows 10 22H2, Windows Update

• Patching that video card

  Posted on November 18, 2024 at 02:42 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  This month, I want you to review what else you have installed on your computer besides the operating system.

  Why? Because I want you to focus on your browsers and the software that is installed with your video card.

  And why video cards? Because there have been several vulnerabilities specifically tied to the Windows graphics drivers released by NVIDIA.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.47.0, 2024-11-18).

  Patch Watch AirPods, AirPods Pro 2, CVE-2024-0117, CVE-2024-0118, CVE-2024-0119, CVE-2024-0120, CVE-2024-0121, CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-43639, Exchange Server, HP Support Assistant, KB5046613, KB5046633, Newsletters, NVIDIA, Patch Lady Posts

• Nvidia is now worth more than Intel

  Posted on July 10, 2020 at 06:25 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I saw that headline and couldn’t believe it.

  As of this writing, very early Friday morning, Nvidia lists at $420.36, for a total market capitalization (number of outstanding shares * share price) of $258.52 billion.

  Intel lists at $58.42, for a market cap of $247.35 billion.

  Absolutely phenomenal result of Nvidia’s branching into more-than-graphics.

  Other Intel, NVIDIA

• Stuttering reported with Win10 Nvidia GeForce GTX 10xx cards

  Posted on April 15, 2018 at 08:43 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I bumped into a report on Reddit that blames game stutters when Standby memory eats up all available memory.

  Connecting the dots, it appears as if the stuttering only appears on Win10 machines — and only those running the newer “Pascal” version of the Nvidia chip. You probably know Pascal better as the GeForce GTX 10xx chips.

  Poster Gigabytes1337 says:

  I’ve been battling with stuttering in games for months and really feel defeated over it. I just wanted to know if many others have been suffering with the same issue.

  Basically every game stutters and hitches and BF1 is one of the worst. It happens when the standby memory cache eats up all of the free memory. Clearing it seems to reduces the frequency and intensity of the stuttering.

  The stutter goes away when they switch to Win7. Apparently Nvidia isn’t interested in hearing about it.

  Anybody else out there see this?

   

  Windows News GTX, NVIDIA, stutter

• New NVIDIA driver for Windows 7

  Posted on March 3, 2009 at 04:49 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  NVIDIA just posted a new video driver for those of you who are taking Windows 7 for a test spin. I’m using it right now, and it’s working very well indeed.

  I’m a bit surprised because Microsoft didn’t change anything in the driver model between Vista SP2 and Windows 7 – so an update to the Windows 7 driver should be the same thing as an update to the Vista driver. That’s the theory anyway.

  That said, I have had a few problems with the NVIDIA driver running Windows 7 Beta 1 (build 7000). It’ll be interesting to see if they persist with the new driver.

  By the way, those of you who are running the Windows 7 Beta understand that it isn’t really a beta, right? I though that was kind of a given. Microsoft doesn’t do open betas – never has, at least since the days of Word 2.0. All of the open betas nowadays are what we used to call “marketing betas”. Microsoft doesn’t release betas to the public in order to ask for comments/suggestions about features. Microsoft releases marketing betas so people have a chance to get an early look, convince their companies to wait for a newer and better product – and in some cases garner bragging rights. As its name implies, a marketing beta is driven by marketing, not the development team.

  MS picks up a few bug reports from the marketing betas, but they’re generally not terribly useful.

  So those of you who are clicking the “Send Feedback” link that’s ubiquitous in Windows 7 should know that the feedback you’re sending will affect Windows 8, some day. The Windows 7 team is waaaaaay beyond the point where it can change anything substantive. My guess is that the only significant change in the past few months has been in the changes to User Account Control elevation, which I wrote about in Windows Secrets Newsletter.

  Ed Bott has a good analysis on his ZDNet blog. Ed’s been beta testing Microsoft software since Moses set the standards for manly hair styling. Guess I’m pretty long in the tooth in that department, too.

  Windows News marketing beta, NVIDIA, windows 7 beta